Digital Training

Training aids for surgeons

A USB stick containing 7 complete lip or palate surgical procedures is available on request and FREE to surgeons. Read more

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Formal Dinner

CLEFT is organising a Formal Dinner at the Civil Service Club in the heart of London for friends & supporters of the charity.
Ed's GNR Fundraiser

Running the GNR in support of the Research Fund
Euan's Great North Run Fundraiser

I am raising money for CLEFT to support important research projects to help understand the causes of clefts and to develop better ways to treat them.
Karen Mallett Half Marathon fundraiser

My name is Karen Mallett, I am a visually impaired runner. The reason I have chosen to raise funds for this wonderful charity is, when I was in primary school there was a child who was born with a cleft lip and palate, 40 years have passed, but I still remember that child and the struggles he experienced.

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Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burns and Plastic Surgery

We are working with Bangladeshi specialists at the new Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burns and Plastic Surgery to create a sustainable centre to treat children with cleft lip and palate.
Our mission

CLEFT was established in 2007 with one aim, to help improve the lives of children born with cleft lip and palate, either by funding research into the likely causes of the condition or by helping support teams in lower and middle income countries.
Donate

You can donate or sign up to a regular donation to help us plan for the future.
The Great North Run 2022

Our first year taking part in the Great North Run 2022, we are very pleased to be part of this amazing event.
The Great Bristol Run 2022

This is an exciting half marathon race through Bristol and is CLEFT's first year taking part.
Brian Sommerlad, Consultant Plastic Surgeon and Chair of Trustees

For over 40 years, I have been involved in operating on babies, children and adults who have been born with cleft lip and/or palate.
Nawrin and the C-Arm

This important piece of equipment was supplied by CLEFT and is used to see moving images of the cleft palate. Nawrin is a 13 year old girl who was experiencing speech difficulties and needed the C-Arm to show the cleft team if further surgery was required.
MRI Speech Assessment

This important research looked at using MRI to assess whether further surgery could improve speech for people with repaired clefts.
The genetics of cleft lip and palate

Investigations into the genetics of cleft lip and palate to understand more about why cleft lip and palate occurs.
About us

CLEFT was established in 2007 by cleft surgeon Brian Sommerlad - based at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, together with a former patient and a patient's grandmother.